Funding for all projects is provided by donations from private businesses, organizations, and individuals who wish to support quality, innovative Colorado-based projects which reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Offsets are purchased from selected projects and then retired by The Climate Trust on behalf of these donors to the Colorado Carbon Fund.

Eligible Recipient

Project Developers working on projects located in Colorado; projects can be privately or publicly owned. Cogeneration projects are eligible.

Eligible Fuel

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Eligible Project Size (MW)

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Minimum Efficiency Required (%)

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Other Selected Eligibility Criteria

Projects must:

Have contract terms of less than 15 years.

Directly reduce emissions of one or more of the six greenhouse gases.

Reduce emissions at the site where they are implemented by reducing or displacing the use of fossil fuels.

Reduce at least 40,000 metric tons of CO2-equivalents over the contract term (similar project types can be aggregated to meet the size requirement).

Not yet be implemented and will not be implemented until after an Emission Reduction Purchase Agreement is executed.

Reduce emissions through energy related measures such as avoidance of methane emissions, switching to renewables or making efficiency improvements.

Demonstrate that selling emission reductions to The Climate Trust somehow enables a project's implementation and that without the opportunity to sell the project's emission reductions the project would not occur.

Other Incentive Details

Projects must not include emissions reductions related to reducing or displacing the use of grid-tied electricity. The Colorado Carbon Fund is also not currently accepting sequestration project proposals.

The Colorado Carbon Fund has a preference for several types of efficiency projects, including cogeneration.